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Pa. courts reject Trump campaign's efforts on voter signatures, poll watching
HARRISBURG – A pair of state appeals courts in Pennsylvania have denied the bids of President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign to reject ballots for perceived differences with voters’ signatures and to dispatch poll watchers to monitor early voting sites prior to Election Day. -
Pa. Supreme Court disregards SCOTUS ruling, decides jurisdiction applies in pelvic mesh injury case
HARRISBURG – A landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the concept of specific jurisdiction in 2017 did not guide the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, when it affirmed a $12.85 million damages award in a pelvic mesh injury matter against a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary. -
Deadlocked U.S. Supreme Court upholds mail-in ballot deadline extension ruling from Pa. Supreme Court
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a ruling which will permit Pennsylvania to count mail-in ballots submitted up to three days after Election Day on Nov. 3, in a deadlocked decision of 4-4. -
Pa. Supreme Court taking up issue of mail-in voter signature comparison prior to Election Day
HARRISBURG – In a 4-3 decision, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania decided to consider if county election officials are permitted to discard mail-in ballots purely predicated on comparing the signatures of voters on ballot envelopes and registration forms, prior to Election Day in less than three weeks. -
Boockvar asks Pa. Supreme Court to use 'King's Bench' authority to intercede in Trump's mail-in ballot lawsuit
PITTSBURGH – The state’s top election official is not only seeking summary judgment in the lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign against herself and county election boards in Pennsylvania, but the intervention of the state Supreme Court, in arguing that the campaign’s claims are “legally flawed and fatally unsupported.” -
Bullied, beaten and sexually abused child gets relief from Supreme Court as he sues Philly schools
HARRISBURG – Minors have more time to adhere to the particulars of state law when making claims for discrimination, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled. -
Trump campaign regroups, plans strategy for federal challenge to Pa. voting rules
PITTSBURGH – President Donald Trump’s campaign is figuring out what’s left of its federal lawsuit against Pennsylvania election officials following an adverse decision from the state Supreme Court last week. -
Pa. Supreme Court approves three-day counting deadline extension and drop-box ballot collection statewide
HARRISBURG – In a major victory for state Democrat officials, a 4-3 decision of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has given the Pennsylvania Democratic Party its requested three-day extension to count mail-in ballots and approved the use of drop-box locations apart from official polling places. -
Uber drivers can be eligible for unemployment benefits, Pa. Supreme Court rules
HARRISBURG – Once-unemployed individuals who found work as drivers for ride-share service Uber may now be eligible for unemployment compensation, a majority complement of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruled on July 24. -
UPMC should have warned of potential threat from psychiatric patient who later killed neighbor, justices rule
HARRISBURG – A 3-2 split of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania recently ruled that a University of Pittsburgh Medical Center psychiatric facility had a duty to warn a teenage student that her life was in danger from one of its residents. -
Testimony that 'each and every breath' of asbestos contributes to disease allowed in lawsuit - for now
HARRISBURG – A Pennsylvania federal judge has denied a motion to exclude expert testimony in an asbestos exposure action, ruling that issues with the testimony may later be raised in a summary judgment motion or at trial. -
Pa. Supreme Court says Human Relations Act doesn't govern the statewide judiciary or its employees
HARRISBURG – The state judiciary and its employees are immune from application of the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act, according to a recent unanimous ruling from the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. -
Pa. Superior Court invokes culpability doctrine in case of man who died from opioid drug overdose
HARRISBURG – A three-judge panel of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania upheld summary judgment from a Lackawanna County court which ruled because a man illegally possessed a controlled substance, his estate was prevented from seeking redress against the conduct of other parties to the action. -
Pa. Supreme Court voids GOP lawmakers' resolution to end coronavirus emergency declaration
HARRISBURG – A 5-2 majority of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania recently ruled that a joint resolution from state lawmakers to end the emergency declaration put in place by Gov. Tom Wolf in response to the coronavirus pandemic was null and void, since it had not been reviewed by Wolf for either his approval or veto. -
Prisoner taken off kitchen duty for smuggling sugar loses case
HARRISBURG – The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has reversed a win for an inmate who claimed his due process rights were violated by a number of state corrections officers during his work assignment. -
Fired for pornography, Berks County police officer will get job back without computer access
HARRISBURG – The state Supreme Court has reversed a Commonwealth Court decision concerning a Berks County police officer who had been terminated for accessing and storing pornographic photos on the job, remanding the case to the lower court with instructions to reinstate an arbitrator’s award. -
PennDOT employee who made profane Facebook post about school bus driver loses lawsuit over firing
HARRISBURG – The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania unanimously overturned a decision from the Commonwealth Court and agreed with the state Department of Transportation, that a former employee was rightly fired when she posted on Facebook that she would “gladly smash into a school bus.” -
Pa. Supreme Court declines to hear Pittsburgh restaurant's coronavirus insurance case
HARRISBURG – The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has denied a petition for extraordinary relief from a restaurant taking action against its insurer for allegedly not covering losses sustained during the coronavirus quarantine. -
Gov. Wolf asks U.S. Supreme Court to affirm his controversial coronavirus business shutdown order
HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf says his executive order to close down non-life-sustaining businesses was lawful and that a wave of new coronavirus infections among the public may be in the cards, if the U.S. Supreme Court decides to support a challenge to his order. -
Restaurant denied coronavirus coverage takes fight to Pennsylvania Supreme Court
HARRISBURG – A restaurant taking action against its insurer for allegedly not covering losses sustained during the coronavirus quarantine has filed an emergency petition seeking the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania to take the case.